Lieutenant Colonel Wybrand Adriaan de Jongh

Brief Overview

Lieutenant Colonel Wybrand Adriaan de Jongh created Account of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, by Lieutenant Colonel W.A. de Jongh, Commander of the National Militia Battalion No. 8 to provide an eyewitness account of the initial fights of the Battle of Waterloo and what he experienced during those trying few days afterward. As another firsthand account of the battle, Lieutenant Colonel Jongh’s account provides crucial details on the Battle of Waterloo and its outcome. Historians and those interested in military history are likely the main readers of Jongh’s account, and anyone studying Napoleon’s military campaigns.

Citation

Jongh, Lieutenant Colonel Wybrand Adriaan de. “Account of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, by Lieutenant Colonel W.A. De Jongh, Commander of the National Militia Battalion No. 8.” The Napoleon Series, 1815. https://www.napoleon-series.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DeJongh1815.pdf.